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IMPROVE EVERY DAY
Whether you’re a Tour Pro or a weekend player, there’s always room for improvement. The more you understand about the forces at work in the golf swing, the better you’ll be able to control the club face and strike the ball. When I’m on the range or on the course as a coach, I do my best to explain these natural forces in a way that reveals the “a-ha moment” for players. It doesn’t matter what your handicap is, seeing how other golfers are applying their understanding to improve will ultimately help you fine tune your swing as well. I’m also going to share firsthand experiences at some of the world’s finest courses, so you’ll know what to expect when you visit and play. This is what the Player Lessons section is all about.

PLAYER LESSONS

Most all sports crossover. Your body is a pattern machine. It does not know if you are playing golf or tennis or baseball. It is just duplicating or learning patterns. Once you learn a pattern it is transferable to other sports. So any sport that you play has application to golf. And if you play golf it has applications and direct crossovers to other sports. So rather than learn something new why not use what you already know. Most of the motions you make in a swing you already know how to do them. You are doing them every day just moving around and being involved in the universe.

SPORTS CONNECT

A Malaska Golf Member has had success with the Right Foot Back Drill. Doing this drill helps get your right hip out of the way. The Member feels he can’t get his left hip out of the way on the follow-through because his right hip is already back. 

Mike says this is true to some degree. However, it still gets your hips to work correctly. This is all about a feel and relationship between your right and left leg that works when you put your feet back together at your square stance.

The Member then wants to know how to get his feet back to square without having his right foot back and still get the right hip back.

Mike says it’s about feeling where the hips must get to, whether doing the Right Foot Back Drill or hitting the ball from square. Once you feel where the pelvis must go, move your foot up. Your legs will start to feel how you push your hips back.

It is about identifying a feel and a spot and creating spatial awareness of where the hip needs to go. You can then make a swing with your stance closer to square.